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Bill McKibben

We had other currencies that we could find work in – the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity.
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Creativity Movement Passion
We’re not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it’s too late for that. We’re trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity
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Becoming Late Trying
We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)
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Fossils Fuel Math
There is basically no one not on the payroll of Exxon Mobil or coal companies who any longer contend that this is not something to worry about.
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Coal Company Worry
I think I have felt most profoundly that in our disruption of the most basic physical processes of creation, we are engaged not only in the act of suicidal self-destructiveness, but also in an act of thorough-going blasphemy.
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Self Suicidal Thinking
We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.
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Christmas Giving Ties
My house is covered in solar panels, I’m a great believer in all this – we all should be doing this.
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Believer House Should
There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
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Christmas Holiday Reflection
Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It’s our reality.
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Global Philosophical Reality Warming
We have to transition to new technologies, making it more expensive to continue with the old and polluting technologies and cheaper to go to the clean ones.
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Clean Technology Transition
Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.
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Business Fuel Waste
If it’s wrong to wreck the planet, it’s wrong to profit from the wreckage.
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Profit Wreckage Wrecks
A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.
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Carbon Citizens Currents
There’s no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or an impossible one, and what comes after that.
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Climate Energy Impossible
On the top of these mile thick slabs of ice the water is percolating quickly to the base and greasing the skids, as it were, for the slide of that ice into the ocean.
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Ice Ocean Water
A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.
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Ability Desire Style

It’s off the charts – and if you don’t believe the scientists, ask the insurance industry, the people we pay to analyze risk in our society.

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